96 pages : 26 cm

Presents instructions for making various kinds of books including those that carry messages across space and time as well as those that save words, ideas, and pictures

Includes index

Introduction -- Tools and materials: Setting up a book center -- Writing your message -- Illustrating your ideas -- Books that carry messages across space and time: Gypsy wagon: accordion-folded choose-your-own-adventure book -- Time capsule: personal time capsule with a stab-binding -- A 3300-year-old time capsule -- Magic carpet: map-folded storybook -- Tool kit: how-to book with a coptic binding and foldouts -- Pages of silk, covers of ivory -- Traveling museum: research report in an origami form -- No talking, no eating, and no checking out the books, either! -- Books that celebrate and mark things: Deep map: book about a place using a Japanese ledger binding -- Movie: scroll book that illustrates a process -- The Dead Sea Scrolls -- Journal companion: pamphlet-bound notebook in a polaire -- Books that travel with their owners -- Fireworks show: holiday or special event book using pop-ups in a glue book -- Special effects -- Books that save words, ideas, and pictures: Treasure chest: family history book, accordion-folded, with small pamphlet-bound inserts -- Travel journal with secrets: tetratetraflexagon journal that unfolds in two mysterious ways -- Famous travel journals -- Secret garden: garden logbook with a ring binding -- Medieval herbals -- Picture gallery: pamphlet-bound sketchbooks with a secret compartment -- The case of the mixed up sketchbooks -- The schraubthaler or coin book -- Books that help us think and make sense of experiences: Dos a dos: book with two points of view, pamphlet-bound, back to back -- Labyrinth: autobiography or biography using an accordion cut into three sections -- Imaginary world: hardcover, single-signature book -- The biggest, the smallest -- a collection of record-breaking books -- Exquisite corpse: game book with split pages and stab binding -- Artists' books -- Starburst: collection book bound in a lotus book form

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